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' (No Model.)

, A. JOHNSTONE.

GOMBINED BUTTON HOOK AND BRACELET. 'No. 401,746. Patented Apr.-23, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT Urrrcn.

ALICE JOIINS'IONE, OF AVONDAIJE, NEW JERSEY.

- COMBINED BUTTON-HOOK AND BRACELET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,746, dated April23, 1889. Application filed January 14, 1889. $erial No. 296,253. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALICE J OHNSTONE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Avondale, Essex county, State of New Jersey, have invented anew and useful Improvement in a Combined Button-Hook and Bracelet, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bracelets; and it consists of a bracelet adetachable portion of the body of which constructed to constitutea'button-hook for use as such. To this end the bracelet may beconstructed in different Ways, some of which are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1V is a perspective view of abracelet with the button-hook in place thereon, completing the bracelet.Fig. 2 is a similar view of the bracelet, the button-hook portion beingremoved. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the detached button-hook. Fig. l isa similar view showing the use of a slightly-modified form of the hookport-ion. Figs. 5, (3, and '7 are views of modified forms of thebutton-hook. portion detached from the bracelet portion. Fig. 8 is aplan view, Fig. 9 a side elevation, and Fig. 10 a section on the line 1010, Fig. 8, of a modified form of the bracelet.

In the class of articles to which this invention relates it hasheretofore been proposed to so construct an integral and detachableportion of the bracelet as to constitute a buttonhook. it sometimeshappens that the conneetion of the body of the bracelet with the hookimpairs the ci'ticiency of the latter. To obviate this difficulty, Imake the hook integrally a part of a bracelet, but so connect it as tobe detachable therefrom. Thus, in the forms shown in the drawings, Arepresents the body portion of a bracelet, which may be of any desiredmaterial, form, or configuration, and which may be ornamented or not, asdesired. It may be ornamented by balls 15 O, and such ornamentation mayconstitute part of the means of securingthebutton-hook portion to thebracelet-body. As shown, the balls at the extremities of thebracelet-body are sufficiently above the line of the body to provide aseat below the heads for the buttoner portion 1), which is constructedto hook upon the body portion. As

shown, the buttoncr portion D is an independent link provided withlooped ends 0, Figs. 1 and 3, or hooked ends Fig. 4, the central portionspread or capable of spreading sufliciently to pass over the balls orenlargements B C, after which the ends of the body pass into the endloops of the part D, as shown in Fig. 1, in which position the buttonerforms an integral portion of the bracelet and completes its structure.In such construction the braceletbody is slightly elastic, so that thetendency of its extremities is to spring apart, thus serving to keep theloops of the part 1) securely seated under the enlargements l3 \Vhen itis desired to use the buttoner, it is only necessary to slightlycompress the body, to carry the ends toward each other, and to draw oneof the enlargements from one of the loops of the buttoner, when thelatter may be easily removed from engagement therewith, the opposite endbeing then free to be slipped from beneath its enlargement and whollyremoved.

The form of the buttoner portion is not essential, so long as itmaybereadily combined with the bracelet portion and removed there from.Thus in Fig. 4. the button-hook portion, instead of being of link form,is simply a single stem havinghooked ends (Z, adapted to engage with anyform of connecting device upon the body portion. In Fig. 5 the buttonerhas a loop, e, at one end and a hook, 'i, at the opposite end. In Fig. 6the buttoner portion is shown as consisting of two loops jointedtogether, and in Fig. 7 the buttoner portion is shown as ornamented by amedallion, S. In each of the forms shown the buttoner portion may bestraight, so far as its length is concerned, or curved to better conformwith the shape of the rest of the bracelet, or of any other desiredform. In Figs. 8, 9, and 10 the buttoner is shown as having a diskularhandle, f, at one end and hook at the other, each adapted to fit asocket, 33, in one end of the body portion said socket being undercut,so that after slipping in the Q]'ll&1'g(3(l end of the buttoner anddrawing it slightly outward it will be locked temporarily in place.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the presence of the buttonerportion does not destroy the aesthetic effect of the bracelet as a Wholeor detract from its use as an ornamentation.

It may be stated that the buttoner portion may be connected to thebracelet by a chain, T, or other similar flexible connection, as shownin Fig. 1, and thus prevent the former from being lost or misplaced.

WVhat I claim is 1. A bracelet consisting of a body portion and adetachable buttoner portion, the body portion having bearings orconnections for the attachment of the ends of the detachable portion,substantially as set forth.

2. A bracelet formed of abody portion and a detachable hook portion, thelatter forming an integral part of the bracelet and Wholly removablefrom the body portion, substantially as described.

3. A combined bracelet and button-hook,

the body portion of the bracelet terminating 1n enlargements Which formpart of the securlng means, and the removable button-hook portion havingends adapted to engage with said enlargements to complete the securingmeans, substantially as described.

4. A bracelet consisting of a body and a buttoner port-ion, the bodyportion of the bracelet formed of springy material and terminating inconnections, and the removable buttoner portion having ends adapted todetachably engage With said connections, substantially as described.

5. A bracelet consisting of a body portion and a detachable buttonerportion, the body portion having bearings for the attachment of thedetachable portion, and a chain for connecting the buttoner and braceletportion together, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihave sign ed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALICE JOHNSTONE.

Witnesses:

J. W. BooKWALTER, ELLA F. BRAMAN.

